14 DAY TRIAL // You think that your kids are safe when surfing the Internet? Well, you'd better think again, because you don't have to be a rocket scientist to notice a well known fact - once you start browsing the Internet, you don't have to search for porn, because porn content will find you, no matter what you do! Even worse, your kids may use the Mac OS X Finder to look for adult content on your computer, and who knows what they may find? You don't have to hide, it's normal for most adults to have such content on their computers, but I don't think it's normal for the kids to browse their parents' kinky files...
Today, I want to tell you about a program that is able to restrict your children's access to the Web, and even to the Mac OS X Finder. The name of this program is KidsBrowser, a program completely written using Apple Cocoa Frameworks to ensure maximum performance and reliability in Mac OS X. The price of this program is 50$, being available as a Universal Binary, fully compatible with PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.
KidsBrowser features integrated parental control, a freely customizable browser layout, allows you to create surfing areas and provides a full screen browsing experience for your kids, using big icons and sound notifications. This program is powered by Apple's Safari HTML engine, and allows your kids to send emails from the browser, print the content of a Web page and features an innovative approach to favorites management.
For parents, this program allows to block access to the preferences, disable ForceQuit and other system keys, hide the Finder and protect the files from your Mac and even disable the download function.
A study from 1999 discovered that while 53% of teens have encountered offensive Web sites that include pornography, hate or violence, 91% of them found them unintentionally while searching the Web, and in the meantime, these numbers have increased, I am sure of that. If you don't want to risk, then kidsBrowser may be one of the best solutions!